Nintendo Wii News and Views

Wii outsells PS3, Xbox 360 in June

You know what has to be worse for Sony CEO Howard Stringer than this spanking the PS3 received in June at Nintendo’s hands?

Posted By David Utter

CSI game for the Wii

The first CSI game for the Nintendo Wii has been revealed recently by Ubisoft. The full title will be CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Hard Evidence. It was announced for PC earlier and Ubisoft decided to release it on two console systems, the Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
Players will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada and two […]

Posted By Lee

Flash Player Vulnerability

Symantec, an anti-virus developer, has released a statement that the Wii has a vulnerability when it plays a video using Adobe’s Flash player through the Opera browser.
I have not heard about previous vulnerabilities about the Opera browser for the Wii and the article from pcworld did not include any info whether this is the first […]

Posted By Lee

Hardcore having a fit over WiiFit

Nintendo isn’t happy just strutting out game after game of people toting massive guns and hordes of aliens trying to kill them.

Posted By David Utter

Wii Sales Update

The latest sales figure of the number of Wii systems that were sold
has been announced by Enterbrain. It is a company which publishes a
video game magazine.
According to Enterbrain, Nintendo has sold a total of over 3 million
systems from December 2, the debut date in Japan, up to July 15.

Posted By Mike

Mario Kart - Delayed

Various websites have posted that the upcoming Mario Kart game for
the Wii has been delayed. At E3 last week, Nintendo mentioned that it
will be released this year. Now, they changed their mind and they
said that they will release it in the first quarter.

Posted By Mike

Bully

An announcement has been made that the popular PS2 exclusive game called Bully will be re-released for Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii.
According to the article at arstechnica.com, there is no info how the game will take advantage of the Wii’s motion-sensing capability.
It received very good feedback from reviews that I’ve read and from gamers […]

Posted By Lee

Boogie

New screen shots have been released for EA’s upcoming singing and dancing game called “Boogie.”
Two out of the eight screenshots show some kind of interface with many different icons/buttons. One image shows a customization screen where you can pick shoes, watches, and other items to customize your character.
The rest of the screen shots show the […]

Posted By Lee

Wii Therapy Catching On

From what I’ve heard, physical rehabilitation can be a painful and difficult experience. But some therapists are using Wiis to lighten the load.
“[T]he Nintendo Wii is winning fans in physical therapy by getting victims of accidents and diseases back on their feet. . . . Dana Ryan, Wake Med director of therapy, said […]

Posted By Doug Caverly

Finding Shigeru Miyamoto interviews

Time has the higher profile site, but Game Informer has the deeper content. Nintendo’s legendary game designer is all over the place.

Posted By David Utter